"Broken Brain" Series on You Tube

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I find the title very insulting. If I were brave enough I'd post a comment to that. It is addressed to those of us with Autism (doesn't mention the spectrum or Asperger's Syndrome), dealing with depression, learning disabilities, bipolar and other things but no matter what they mean, I see the title as insulting.

Each episode is supposed to be available for 24 hours and it starts today and is a week long series. If anyone here is watching or listening to it and has an opinion, I'd be interested in it.


If I were brave enough to post in comments I'd tell them that many of us an the spectrum don't consider ourselves broken.

I agree. That sounds like a horrible title.

That is pretty bad and goes back to the 50s and 60s when autistics were diagnosed with "brain damage" .

That's disgusting. I so want to give them a piece of my mind, even if they'll be surprised to learn I have a mind to begin with.

1. If Bill Gates has no "Broken Brain", then we don't neither.
2. If we don't have "Broken Brain", then we can say that Bill Gates and us have no "Broken Brain".
3. So it is reasonable that we share with Bill Gates the very same creative and intellectual features that made him famous.
4. If we share the same previously enumerated feature, then we can claim that it's because we don't have "Broken Brain".
5. Then, who have "Broken Brain", if and only if, "Broken Brain" is proven to exist at all?

Proof that we are all the same:

I just looked at the 1st episode and it was just doctors talking, there was no personal lives shown and people living their life with their disorder. This was more of a presentation. Yeah boring, I don't sit through this stuff.

One of the doctors considers himself both a patient and a doctor because of his experiences.
I just watched the second episode. He talked about food, leaky gut, wheat, etc.

The sad thing is that if they said it in a better way, it would be much more positive and easier to listen to. He emails a summary of the topic the episode will be about prior to it, earlier in the day.

The information could be so interesting.

Those types of programs put me to sleep. It does sound awfully boring and the title of the show is insulting, the worst possible combination.

I'm glad you gave up a heads up. I'm going on Facebook to post a comment on that title right now. I do not consider my brain to be broken.

Thank you for posting that comment.

In all honesty, I feel it's an accurate descriptor; at least for my case.

Can't get a decent job. Can't maintain relationships with others. Can't date, get married, or ever have a family. Can't succeed at anything. Can't have a normal life. And all because of neural disorder which robbed me of the ability to function as a normal human being.

Feels like a "broken brain" to me.

I marched on over to YouTube and made my comment.

I'm on the Autistic Spectrum and I do not consider my brain to be broken. Get with the times. It's 2018, not 1938.

I don't think I'd call myself brave. I think that blunt and slow would be a better way to describe myself.

Or the society has made you believe that only some jobs are "decent", only some kinds of relationships with others are appropriate, only some narrow set of lifestyles can be considered "normal" for a human being and the goal of life is to get married to someone socially appropriate. And the same people have made you believe you are broken for their own, twisted reasons.

Everything you mentioned is not about yourself but about expectations of others.

ED: I was going to post they offend me too but all I could find with Google was some BS about diet and other paramedic fantasies.

By "decent job", I don't mean one that shallow minded NTs approve of; I mean a job that pays me enough for the work I do to actually afford to keep up with the cost of living.

The ability to date, get a girlfriend, have a family, and experience emotional and physical intimacy with another human being has nothing to do with society's expectations; it's what I want to myself.

I saw your comment. It's a shame nobody else in the comments seems to care about your voice...